Yompai musings

When it comes to feeding our families, especially our little ones, we all want to make the safest, healthiest choices possible. One simple but powerful change many parents are making is switching to wooden kitchen utensils—and it’s easy to see why.

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Caring for a wooden cutting board.

Most homes have a cutting board, and increasingly, people are returning to wooden cutting boards. Like all wooden utensils they do require some regular care but it is not onerous.

As always, the main instruction is don’t put them in the dishwasher. Doing this regularly will shorten the lifespan of your wooden board.

The kitchen. It's often the heart of our homes – a place where ingredients transform into nourishing meals, where stories are shared over bubbling pots, and where daily rituals unfold. We carefully choose our produce, opt for organic meats and vegetables, and invest in high-quality ingredients, all in the pursuit of health and flavour. But amidst this careful selection, there's a crucial, often overlooked element that touches every dish we create: our kitchen utensils.

Because they are so versatile, good for both large pots of food and smaller more delicate items these sauté spatulas have become incredibly popular, an essential item in many kitchens.

 Made of one single piece of Teak wood, hand sanded 5 times so it is smooth to hold, strong and durable.

Why are our wooden spoons and spatulas made from Teak wood specifically. There are a several reasons that Teak is such a wonderful wood for making kitchen utensils and cookware.

Here in NZ we are now in Autumn/Fall and while the days are still warm, the nights are growing cooler and hot foods like soups and stews become more appealing.

For these hot foods eating with wooden soup spoons offers several advantages, especially over metal spoons.

As part of the shift away from plastic and towards more natural, environmentally safe and sustainable kitchenware, wooden platters are becoming more popular.

Wooden spoons have been made in virtually every nation and have been around for a long long time.  

The earliest use of spoons dates back to prehistoric times. People used shells or chips of wood for spoons. The earliest wooden spoon we have dates back to a wooden spoon found in the Royal Tomb of the Pharoah Tutankhamun, and is estimated to be over 3300 years old.